
Beef
Road rage gets shockingly out of control

Mafia Mamma
Toni Collette inherits the family biz in Italy

Air
How Nike created the shoe (directed by Ben Affleck)

Another triple feature at or about the Byrd
2 movies + chat with the new Byrd ED

Paint
Owen Wilson is NOT playing Bob Ross

Tetris
Getting the popular video game for the US market

Sci-fi from 2 different perspectives
The Power & Big Door Prize

Two couples center 2 movies
Murder Mystery 2 & Rye Lane

A Thousand and One
A mother struggles to protect her son

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The game goes big screen

A triple feature from the beach to the mountains
VPM’s new show, Oakwood Arts events & an indie from Tidewater

John Wick: Chapter 4
Keanu Reeves returns to fight and shoot

Summoning Sylvia
A haunted gay bachelor weekend

Unstable
Rob Lowe and his son create fun comic chemistry

Smoking Causes Coughing
French sci-fi superhero farce anthology

The Lost King
The search for Richard III’s grave

Virginia-born actor Andy Umberger
In more than 100 movies & TV shows

The Night Agent
Another FBI agent on the run

A Good Person
Zach Braff wrote & directed Florence Pugh & Morgan Freeman

Up Here
A musical romcom with an impressive pedigree

Daisy Jones & the Six
A series about a fake 70s band

Swarm
A stan goes dark (read review for a definition)

Inside
Willem Dafoe as a thief trapped in an apartment

Rex Teese Edits
From Black Hawk Down to Walking Dead

Challengers
A love triangle framed around tennis

Ripley
A new version of The Talented Mr. Ripley with Andrew Scott

The Beast
A confusing sci-fi romance from France

Boy Kills World
Bill Skarsgård is the latest on a murder spree

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
A unlikely war mission based on truth

His made his first feature at 23
Meet Iranian filmmaker Sina Khani

Civil War
The US is torn apart in a new conflict

3 quickie reviews before vacation
Palm Royale, Renegade Nell & Música

Wicked Little Letters
Olivia Colman & Jessie Buckley spar over nasty notes

Monkey Man
Dev Patel gets violent (& directed)

In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Liam Neeson as a mellow killer

Moroccan-American director at JRFF
Yossera Bouchtia discusses 3 of her shorts

Still growing after 25 years
Dig into VPM’s Virginia Home Grown

Shadow Force
Kerry Washington & Omar Sy on the run

Your Friends and Neighbors
Jon Hamm’s version of Breaking Bad

Nonnas
Grandmothers are the chefs

Another Simple Favor
An unexceptional sequel

Étoile
Paris & NYC ballet companies exchange stars

Thunderbolts
More Marvel misfits in a lukewarm rehash

This Oscar-nominated producer’s new film
RVA native Michael Gottwald

The Four Seasons
Three couples vacation thru the year

The Surfer
Nicolas Cage wipes out

The Studio
Seth Rogen’s Hollywood studio satire

Havoc
Tom Hardy gets violent…again

Rust
In honor of slain DP Halyna Hutchins

The Accountant 2
Ben Affleck is back as a math savant

Leaving the weather after 41 years
Meteorologist John Bernier retires

The Shrouds
Useless sci-fi drama from David Cronenberg

On Swift Horses
Challenging romances in the 50s

A Nice Indian Boy
Not a gay rom-com but a rom-dram

G20
Viola Davis as a kick-ass POTUS

Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie
A self-created documentary

Sinners
A vampire thriller with Michael B. Jordan as twins

The 4th annual industry update
VFO Director Andy Edmunds is back

The Ballad of Wallis Island
A slighty-quirky, heart-warming indie

The Amateur
Rami Malek in a spy flick without much action